We Don’t Know Jack About the World – Alisa Miller TED Talk

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Alisa Miller, President and CEO of Public Radio International, enlightens us on how little U.S. news coverage there is on the rest of the world. How does she do this? She uses maps of course. Miller uses visualization to tell a (short) story. She shows us all the coverage on Iraq and the lack of coverage on all other countries, which is practically nothing.

The name of this type of morphed map escapes me right now. Maybe someone can remind me?

This makes quite a nice comparison with the inaccuracies of the standard mercator projection used in most schools. This shows the size of north America grossly out of proportion with it’s real size, much as the news coverage does.